Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marny Lawton; Donald Wroblewski

: · General distance education questions · Technology questions · Support questions · Academic questionsThe survey results reflected the increased acceptance and awareness of electronic and distancelearning. A possible reason for this, in a class of freshmen and sophomores, was the increasedtechnical sophistication and available connectivity found nationwide in secondary education.Although some orientation was provided, students were generally prepared to use the softwareand technology implemented in the course without further training. Over the entire semesteronly five students experienced difficulty that was resolved by the Office of Distance Learningstaff and the course graduate teaching assistant. While a solution was offered, one of these

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Stubblefield; Elisabeth Alford

form of mentoring as experienced professionals draw on someof their personal experiences to advise the professionals in training. In this particularworkshop, the keynote faculty speaker was the Interim Chair of the ElectricalEngineering Department, who spoke on teacher preparation as professional development.Although many doctoral level engineering teaching assistants will pursue academiccareers and thus recognize the value of their TA experience, those planning non-academic careers may see the teaching assistantship primarily as a job. Both groupsbenefit from reflecting on the connections between teaching strategies and managementskills, as well as on the importance of communications throughout the engineeringprofession. In almost any

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2002-2103Table 6 summarizes the results of the Fast Track behavior checklist. Items are ordered by thepercent of participants who checked the item as accurately reflecting their behavior. Resultsindicate that 50-78% of students checked ten of the recommended behaviors, 24-48% checked 13of the recommended behaviors and 13% or less four of the behaviors. TABLE 6 Recommended Fast Track Behavior Adopted by Fall 2000 Freshmen Behavior Percentage I am planning to

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Magin; Christopher Comer; J Hetling

the Nervous System is Foundations of Cellular Neurophysiology,by Johnston and Wu (The MIT Press). This is an excellent treatment of computationalneuroscience which we have found to be approachable by upper-division engineers andbiologists alike.The preparatory coursework in neurobiology includes at least one year of courses taught by thebiological sciences department, and must include the BioS 442 course, a rigorous treatment ofNerve and Muscle Physiology. The remaining one-semester course is chosen in coordinationwith the student’s advisor to reflect the student’s interests, and generally consists of a course in Page 7.77.4 Proceedings

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Schmidt; Gregory Plett

(2 pl.) electronics Lower Connector Magnet support storage arm Side View Front View Figure 2. Two views of the MagLev device.The magnets are of an ultra-high field strength rare earth (NeBFe) type. A dry-lubricated guidebushing at the center of the disk slides up and down the rod. A white reflective surface coversmost of the disk. Two laser-based sensors make use of the reflective properties of the

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Zribi; Mohammad Al-Ansary; Ibrahim Nashawi; Haitham Lababidi; Faridah Ali; Aziz Tayfun; Adel Aly; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

students and employers.Plans are currently underway to review and evaluate the available assessment results. It isanticipated that the curriculum and assessment plans will be revised accordingly. Existingassessment tools are currently being unified for ease of data management and correlation.Assessment is being conducted at the course, program, and college levels. In the overallprocess, · students are informed of the outcomes; · course and project evaluations are based on outcomes; · students write and reflect on their progress towards outcomes in various courses; · students are advised on progress toward outcomes; · students’ progress toward outcomes is documented; and

Conference Session

Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Patton; Richard Bannerot

for such a world?Design is useful because it sits at the juncture between utility and beauty; and, therefore itspeaks a language that is both comprehensible and challenging to engineers. Designtheory and design process give framework to and make accessible the intuitive realm,thus enhancing an engineer’s capacity to formulate ideas. On a practical level design, as avisual exercise, enables students to physically manifest their thoughts. In this way, ideasleave the coffers of the mind where they exist in a formless state. Once thoughts areexpressed in real time, they can be touched, admired, or admonished. In this way,students can reflect on outcomes, turning forms back and forth, over and under, in andout. This process of realization and

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

continuous effort may be critical tobusiness success.Defining Customer Requirements and Program ObjectivesIt is the responsibility of the program and the assessment team to continuously monitor and applythe customers’ requirements. A program should be driven by establishing goals, by definingmeasurable program objectives, by establishing an effective process, and by determiningprogram outcomes that result from achieving program objectives.The first step before a program’s assessor starts with the assessment process is to define programobjectives and seek outcomes. The objectives of the program would broadly reflect the needs of Page 7.1195.34

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

is addressed Page 7.833.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthrough exercises where teams of two interact to reflect on what enhances and what detractsfrom each person’s ability to be creative.Communicate – The glue of the creative system is communication, which must be constant,effective, information rich, and well managed. Communication technology is burgeoning andthe extraction of information from data is becoming ever more difficult, but if they can be dealtwith effectively these

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

their experience and finalize plans for technical publications and presentations. During the first, fifth and last weeks, an outside evaluator (College of Education, Faculty) meets with the REU participants to evaluate their experience. The evaluator determines the impact of the REU experience on the participants through written surveys and exit interviews. The evaluator also conducts surveys beyond the duration of the REU to trac k the students’ progress at their respective colleges. The surveys and exit interviews will provide valuable information vital for the improvement of the REU program in subsequent years. RESULTS OF REU 2001 Nearly 50 applications were received in the summer of 2001. The nine finalists, 2 males and 7 females reflected

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

technology information, · Finalizing the processes, equipment to be used, and project costs, · Writing complete, professional level, RFPs and Proposals. · The RFPs and proposals are thoroughly discussed and negotiated by the various participating teams via the Internet, and the contracts awarded to the best overall proposals,· Students and faculty have the opportunity to participate via the Internet in the project feedback process, to discuss the positive and negative aspects of each team’s participation. GLOBETECH Experiences In 1995 and 1996, GLOBETECH- I and II discussed automobile and vans manufacturing joint ventures in China and Thailand. In 1997, reflecting the world’s

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Noack; Harry Tyrer; Eric Epperson

score of 200 reflecting its rate compared to the other twohourly exams with a maximum score of 100. However, the number of student grades in the lowend of the range was extremely small. TABLE 1 Asynchronous Traditional Exam 1 55-100 40-100 Exam2 40-100 47-100 Final Exam 125-200 100-200 TABLE 1 Compares exams taken by the asynchronously taught class to the historical record of the exams for the same course taught in the traditional manner.We compare the asynchronous course to

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

exam scores and between exam scores and lecture days. It would appearthat part of the difficulty lies with the closeness of the data, as it all falls within a small range,64% to 88%.Another approach in analyzing this data involves ranking the CLO's for each data set. That is,for the survey data, the CLO with the lowest score (closest to one, but reflecting the higheststudent confidence level) is ranked number one, the CLO with the next lowest score is rankednumber two, and so forth until the CLO with the highest score is ranked eighteenth. Similarly,rankings are achieved for the other three sets of data, the homework grading, exam grading, anddays of lecture, except that the ranking is done in descending order for these data sets

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

name that may reflect the type of servicesthey perform, represent an individual or group, or just have a name that will be catchy and dynamic. Thecompany’s name will be used throughout the entire course when sending correspondence and representing theteam. Along with the name, the teams must determine the type of organization they will operate under that maybe a partnership, corporation, or company. All of the firms are located in the same city, but the teams aredirected to establish their home office and branch office addresses and telephone numbers. The teams also arerequired to create a company motto and logo that will be incorporated throughout course. Creativity isencouraged in developing these items.Branch Office’s Organizational

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education--I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

NE distance education provider. Over 12 other NEprograms submitted proposals to KAPL and the UT program was selected for a variety ofreasons including the flexibility of the program (e.g., requiring math, allowing non-NEengineering courses), the retention of a research requirement in the DE program, and theinteractive CyberClass delivery technology.The demand is best shown through recent enrollment figures: the 2001 Fall semester figuresshow that the new distance education programs increased UT nuclear engineering graduatestudent enrollment by 25%. These figures reflect demand for the MS program because theCertificate programs do not officially begin until Fall 2002.5.0 CONCLUSIONS:The University of Tennessee's Nuclear Engineering Department

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

” laboratory exercises in which the students must fabricate and assemble variousphysical items.III. Reflections on the Design TrilogyStudent numbersSince our first offering of the Design Trilogy in 1998, two groups of students ( » 15 students pergroup) have completed all three courses. Another 60 students have completed a portion of the Page 7.261.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationDesign Trilogy (»15 completed the second and third courses, » 15 completed the first and secondcourses, » 15

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Laurence Gould; Hisham Alnajjar; Diego Bernardete; David Pines

tool used to assess the ILB was a student survey given at the end of the semester.The questionnaire was designed to determine if the students felt that they had achieved theshared outcomes and specific outcomes of Principles of Design. The students’ responses reflecttheir opinion of whether the outcomes were achieved, but do not necessarily reflect whether they Page 7.701.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationactually achieved the outcomes. Thirty-eight students completed the questionnaire

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Edwards

with the tutorial sheets guiding the student through a structured use of theapplets. These tutorial sheets are highly contrived since they lead the student through a set ofpredetermined tasks using the applet (“I know what I want my students to see!”). However,students are allowed to proceed at their own pace and, every so often, space is left on thetutorial sheet for reflection, e.g. ‘Draw the graph shown on the screen in the space provided’,‘Write here how the graph changed when …’, ‘Why do you think that the graph…?’, ‘Whatwas the equation in this case?’An extract from the ‘Mass / Spring / Damper’ applet’s worksheet is shown in the followingframe. Here, students are guided into discovering for themselves the phenomenon of ‘Beats’.· Use the

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Puttiphong Jaroonsrisphan

), and compensation (lag, lead).Although it may be argued that the course contents possess educational values, it isgenerally agreed that significant revision is necessary to reflect the change intechnologies and modern engineering career challenges. In particular, computer-aidedanalysis, state space methods, and nonlinear systems are introduced into the curriculum,replacing lag, lead compensation, Nichols chart, and parts of the performance criteria.That is, the emphasis of the course is on analysis rather than control design which isrelegated to a second course “EE486 Control Systems Electives”. An outline of thelecture is shown below: · Introduction to Systems, Review of LaPlace Transform · Transfer Functions, Signal Flow Graphs

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.3Thus, critical thinking paves the pathway of the creative process. The higher-level thinkingskills are not innate or instantaneous, but must be practiced and honed on a continual basis.Students must realize that this is a life-long learning process that requires discipline of thoughtand cannot be achieved in a moment of inspiration or mastered at any given time. Page 7.541.2

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in CET and MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sprinsky

EngineeringTechnology and Surveying Technology degree programs follow the standards of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and are accredited by theTechnology Accreditation Commission (TAC). A National Science Foundation (NSF (ILI)) grant Page 7.694.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expositi on Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationallowed us to change the thrust of the programs to reflect the revolution in civil engineering andsurvey technology caused by advances in electronics, satellite positioning, and computer

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

functional parts. Reflecting the importance ofteaching the fundamental computer knowledge, engineering accreditation organization ABETcurrently requires all accredited electrical and computer engineering programs to include amicrocontroller/microprocessor course.The two most popular microcontroller modules used in universities are the 68HC11EVB and the68HC11EVBU. The first one is designed to work along with external memory components andadditional ports (expanded mode) while the latter one was developed for embedded applicationswhere a microcontroller contains all necessary resources within the controller (single chip Page 7.863.1mode). At the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

which will be fully reflected in the results of academic year2001-02 should provide a rich and textured picture due to both qualitative and quantitativeinstruments. Faculty from Humanities and all engineering departments at Drexel University willhave had the opportunity and familiarity to employ assessment techniques and to profit from themin continuous quality improvement.ReferencesArms. V.M. (2001) Humanities for the Engineering Curriculum, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill PrimisCustom Publishing, New York.Ewell, Peter T. (1997) Organizing for Learning: a New Imperative, AAHE Bulletin, December 1,pp 3-6Quinn, R.G. (1993) Drexel’s E4 Program: A Different Professional Experience for EngineeringStudents and Faculty, Journal of Engineering Education

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Beams

209C 3.15 × 10 6 442,000Table 1. Comparison of dc open- loop gains for various devices measured by both the prototypeand PCB versions of the Project TUGBOAT instrument. “Lot Code” reflects markings otherthan device type and manufacturer’s logo found on the devices.One minor modification has been introduced to the Project TUGBOAT virtual- instrumentprogram since the instrument was first described. It was found in testing the Project TUGBOATinstrument realized on a printed-circuit board that ac open-loop gain measurements of LM324operational amplifiers at 1 kHz and 10 kHz were grossly in error given the specified gain-bandwidth product of this device

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

reflection of the University of Pittsburgh, the Department of IndustrialEngineering, and ultimately the instructor (as many of the projects result from personal contactsmade by the instructor). Failure is not an option! Furthermore, it is the instructor’s hope that allprojects will be successful and all students will receive a letter grade of “A” for “superiorattainment.” The actual breakdown of grading for the project is outlined in Table 1.Project SolicitationDuring the summer months prior to the SAINT Program being launched in the Fall 2001 theIndustrial Engineering faculty prepared a brochure explaining the new program in an effort tosolicit high quality projects. This brochure was distributed to project sponsors from the last fiveyears along

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

T. Michael Baseheart; Richard Miller; Mark Bowers; James Swanson; Anastasios Ioannides; Roy Eckart

described. Of course, the experiences of the previous year with the development andteaching of the statics courses were invaluable in planning for the implementation of the newstrength of materials course technology needs and formats. This article addresses thedevelopment of the material for the technologies used in the different sections of strength ofmaterials and preliminary information on student performance and satisfaction.II. Strength of Materials Course Material DevelopmentUpon reflection about which of the different technologies had the most stringent demands for thequality of video required, streaming video 4 was the obvious controlling media. Qualityrecording of the visual material used during each lecturer was essential. Consideration

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor

is a netlist that specifies the dimensionsof each cell used, the locations of the terminals on each cell, and a list of the nets (wires)that connect the terminals of each module. Depending on the design style used, cells maybe of varying size, or may be fixed in size in one or two dimensions. Cells may berotated or reflected about an axis if that results in a better placement, but are not generallyallowed to overlap.The typical problem formulation for placement represents cells as rectangles on a planarsurface with a cost function that provides a measure of placement quality - usually somecombination of chip area and routing quality. Chip area is easily measured by finding abounding box that contains all the cells. Routing quality, on the

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

beexpended where they will do the enterprise the most good. The students had discovered thatthroughput was not affected by the balancers as was perceived, but by the quality of theincoming castings. The instructor was insistent that the report and presentation reflect this andpulled rank like a superior would in industry. Without a doubt, this is a shift from the "sage onthe stage" approach. Page 7.1146.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Masters; Renata Engel

State-University Park were taught using a lecture/recitation format. Using this delivery method afaculty member presented one lecture each week to a large class of students (>150) and teachingassistants presented corresponding problems during the remaining two weekly class sessions tothe students in smaller sections (approximately 40 students in each section). A set of notes thatwere reflective of the material covered during the lecture was distributed to the students at thestart of each lecture class.This method has certain attributes that were extremely valuable: i) uniformity—all sectionswould cover the same material and to the same depth; ii) complete coverage—the notes wouldensure that students would have the level of detail of the

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvie Doré

our personality and we only develop a few combinations. • No combination is better or worse than another, they only reflect how we apprehend and deal with reality. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.To make these concepts a bit more tangible, Tables 1 and 2 list a series of characteristics oftenassociated with each type. Page 7.1236.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session